water conservation

Shower With a Friend

15 December, 2009 | Carol Maas

For most Canadians, energy efficiency is synonymous with light bulbs. Switching to compact fluorescents might be simple and inexpensive, but it is not the only cost-effective way to reduce energy use in homes, businesses and utilities. Reducing water use, especially the hot stuff that flows from showers and cleans our clothes, also cuts the amount of energy we consume in myriad ways.

Published in: New Energy 36.1
Tags: xeriscaping, WaterSense, water efficiency, water conservation, sustainable water use, energy efficiency, energy conservation, ecoEnergy Home Retrofit

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Review: Water Woes

26 May, 2009 | David Wellhauser

Chris Wood’s Dry Spring is a politically astute and journalistically refined look at the upcoming water woes of the new world. Wood, a veteran international journalist and former editor of Maclean’s, has written for The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post and The Walrus. His highly informative, eleven-chapter volume looks at the ways in which rising temperatures are leading to severe water scarcity across the world.